Author: Christopher Battles

Intro to job search list.

Uncategorized

Something I have asked myself as of lately is “What am I looking for in a job?”

by me

I have felt for some time that I need to make a list of the things I do not want to help in my decision process.  My wise Yoda friend Emma said that I should start with what I want to do.  Right she was I know.  The  thing is I have never really had that childhood dream of “I want to be flying lemur trainer at a flea circus” or other typical dreams.  Now you may be wondering what my abnormal dreams have been and thinking I should start there and I have not wanted to be a waterfighter or a police person.  I should really focus on the things I know I want to do and get to the point where the things I want to do clearly filter out the things I do not want to do.  Also if I start categorizing what I do want to do, I might see something in that list with the proverbially skull and cross-bones on it that would actually fit me. 

When I was a youth, two things I  said I wanted to do was working at a church with children/youth  full-time and then at another point was to be a business owner.  The church part went away in that I have my faith, but I want to express it more outside of the church when it comes to a career.  The business owner was something that I decided I did not want to do after seeing people’s lives being run by their own business.  As I envision it now though, I am able to see myself running a business in some aspect.  Right now I see something that would be more of a residual income.

Through books and blogs and podcasts I have started to discover some firm foundations of what I want to see in a business in which I work at.  As with anything there are wants and needs.  Now there are few true needs as in food and shelter, but I see honesty as a need in business.

On another line, my view is that work should reflect oneself as clearly as possible.  If your reflection at work is like a fun house mirror of your true self, then how do you recognize yourself?  How will others see as being honest at home is your place of work is not?

Now to create a literal list…

That will be another blog.

Thank you for joining me as I look for the right reflective surfaces for me.

As Bradley Hathaway said in Manly Man poem, “I am not there yet, but past is start.”

K, bye

What stands out to you here?

Do you have a literal list? 

Leave a comment

Who is the economy?

Uncategorized

It is hard to go day without hearing “the economy” as an excuse.

I hear Dave Ramsey and Dan Miller and others reminding their audiences, “you are the economy.”

You and I are the economy.

If you are poor and the economy is rich, you are poor.

If you are rich and the economy is poor, you are rich.

We will all do the economy a favor, by not blaming it.  We must look at the positive.

Times are changing…that is not new.

Businesses are easier to create and the access and cost to create widgets is cheaper as a whole.

True, businesses are cutting back.  When we over spend it will catch up.  It is finally catching up.

The belts are getting tightened.

What I really want to share is the fact we should not use “the economy” as an excuse.  It just gives us something large and not directly touchable to blame.

So instead of blaming “the economy,” let us look at ourselves and at the advantages that comes with it…

K, bye

What is your take on these thoughts?

Leave a comment , , , , , , , ,

Christopher not Chris…

Uncategorized

Me: “Hello, my is Christopher.”

Other person: “Hi Chris.”

My skull: “Who is that?”

Is it a big deal? No, but I find it funny. 

  • If my name was Robert, would the other person shorten it to Bob?
  • If my name was Richard, would  the other person shorten it to Dick?
  • If my name was William would the other person shorten it to Bill?
  • If my name was _______ would the other person shorten it to _______?

Rob, Rich and Will…

Growing up I went by Chris, so my family and older friends know me as Chris.  In high school I started to prefer Christopher.  Once college rolled around I went by Christopher as I met new friends.

K, bye

                                      How do people shorten your name?

Leave a comment , , , ,

The quiet audience…

Uncategorized

Hello you! 

As you might be aware of, I listen to a large measure of podcasts.  What got my attention was that they often have hundreds (or less in the beginning) to thousands of listeners with few comments on them.  The speakers often ask for listener feedback, but seldom seem to receive any.  So after a long time of hearing this I realized how would I feel if I was doing a show and was getting little to no feedback.  Now the ones doing the show know that people are presumable listening due to being able to seeing how many downloads/plays they have, but are they hearing any feedback/a thank you?

What I started doing for the last couple of months is leaving a thank you and often something specific I enjoyed or got out of the show.  Mostly the responses are short, but every once in a while I leave something of length.  I prefer to leave a comment where the home of the show is located.  By doing this I feel that someone who sees the site will know that the show has a crowd with a voice.  If they do not have an area set up to comment I will @ mention them on Twitter as an acknowledgement.

I started doing the same for every YouTube videos and blogs I take in.  It is easy to type “Thank you” and maybe a short sentence.  This has caused me to not only cut back on what I take in, but has also has raised my level of appreciation for what I do take in.  By going back to what I saw/read/heard I am mentally chewing on it some more.

K, bye

How could you better acknowledge the speaker?

Leave a comment , , , ,

Bouncing on the diving board

Uncategorized

Since the last post I had got out of the pool.

As 2011 wrapped up I worked a bit on goal setting.

I will focus on blogging on this post.

Currently I have my own URL’s christopherbattles.net and thechristopher.net. I purchased them via Hover.

They are forwarding over to an about.me site at about.me/christopherbattles. That site is set up like a business card with a picture and bio and links.

My current ideal would be to have a Squarespace site.  With their setup I would have hosting and the blogging platform all together and it would all be under christopherbattles.net and the overall management appeals to me .  The cost would be $13.33-22.22 a month, which is not something I wanting to do at this time. (http://www.squarespace.com/pricing/)

I could host my site for free using using what my father has for his business site, but I need to research that some.

Right now all I have is a URL and this blog, but it is http://christopherbattles.wordpress.com.

So what do I want any way?

I want:

  • Blog(This could be the home page)
  • Everything under christopherbattles.net
  • About me/Contact page
  • A page or two with links for different things
  • Ability to have my tweets on the home page
  • Search ability of site/blog
  • Good commenting system for the blog (Examples: Disqus or Livefyre)
  • Access to edit/blog/comment from any computer(iPhone app would be a bonus)
  • Ability to export the blogs and comments to Squarespace or something later

This is to get my thoughts out and explain where I am it in the process now.

I will keep this topic updated.

Thank you for the read.

K, bye

Update 3/1/2012:

– I just saw that people can now comment via Twitter and Bookface along with WordPress.

– christopherbattles.net is forwarding to http://christopherbattles.wordpress.com, instead of the about.me

Leave a comment , , , , , , ,
1 … 60 61 62 63